Remember that dress that everyone was talking about?
🤔
No…not that dress 😳
Although, that was an interesting dinner table subject, wasn’t it?
I was talking about this dress:
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http://www.businessinsider.com/white-and-gold-black-and-blue-dress-2015-2
Remember how It quickly became the topic of the moment? Countless discussions, and even arguments broke out all over facebook, twitter, even the national news about what color this dress was.
👄(ahem...they change the color depending on the picture)
It seems harmless enough, right?
A question is posed, “What color is that dress?”
An answer provided, “Clearly, that dress is white with gold trim”
👄and clearly it is in some
Which may produce a sarcastic giggle of disagreement, causing the person who answered the question to respond with a bit of frustration and reiterate how obvious the white/gold color combination is. Of course this reaction would only serve to energize the enthusiasm of the one who had asked, as they’d already felt a sense of superiority knowing that most people agreed with them that the dress was blue and black.
I'd imagine, on many occasions, the two, having chosen sides initially based upon what they'd seen, would inevitably end up in a heated argument over the color of a dress that neither party would ever even consider wearing because, let’s be honest, regardless of the color the dress is ugly.
I'm sure that particular dress ruined more relationships and caused more heartache than the famously stained blue one previously mentioned.
We’ve recently been exposed to a new, eerily similar but just as seemingly innocuous point of contention in the form of one word we’re told can sound like two distinctly different words to different people.
👄(ahem...it's 'yanny', I assure you)
So, of course people are talking about it:
https://twitter.com/snackjauregui/status/997646069398941697
- snackjauregui
https://twitter.com/omarel_/status/997631902348652544
- omarel_
https://twitter.com/courtneyforce/status/997615280477138944
- courtneyforce
https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/997323486518497280
- McJesse
The little blue bird’s nest has suddenly erupted with arguments similar to what we experienced with the dress.
The single word sound bite went viral in a number of ways for at least 24 hours, and, although I haven’t been 'fortunate' enough to have time to spend sifting through personality quizzes and baby pictures on facebook to know with any certainty, I’m pretty sure the servers were completely clogged with friends and family members tearing each other apart for what the other heard.
“What do you hear?”
Check out the date and view count on that video...crazy, right? 😏
Smart people know it's ‘Yanny’, but some unfortunates will somehow hear ‘Laurel’, which is completely understandable because ‘ham sandwich’ sounds so much like ‘Chocolate chip cookie’ so if we can confuse those two, it stands to reason that ‘Laurel’ and ‘Yanny’ could be mistaken for one another. 😒
👄that's sarcasm
But, I'd like to ask you to briefly contemplate the feeling you got when you read that last statement if you are one that clearly hears 'Laurel'. Did it matter to you either way? Did you feel a need to comment below and inform me of how the smart people hear 'Laurel'?
It wouldn't be such a big deal if it were just about a word...or a dress, but nothing that gains as much steam as quickly as these things have is as simple as it seems.
more on the origin here
The explanation, however, is very simple.
Regardless of whether this originated from a high school student or an opera singer, or someone else entirely, what matters is that it's been created as a form of division...and most importantly it's been placed before the general population in order to make us question our own senses.
If you can mistake white for blue or 'Yanny' for 'Laurel' what else could you get wrong? Those seem like pretty easy things to keep straight, right?
I don't think this is some silly side thought, this is an experiment, a psychological operation to get the general public accustomed to second-guessing themselves.
I'm not suggesting y'all shouldn't have fun with it, just see it for what it is.
What matters is that we are being deceived and attacked with propaganda by our media on a pretty consistent basis, and just as important as the lies are the reasons why.
I'm not going to presume to understand the 'by whom' and 'for what purpose', I'll leave that up to y'all, but this is just another reminder that 'they' are pulling these shenanigans to put us in opposite corners, ready to fight one another in every imaginable way they can. This one is particularly infuriating to me because it's purpose is to make us question our own better judgement, to question not only what we see, but what we hear.
People are much more easier to manipulate if they are in a constant state of self-doubt.
Does it matter if the dress is blue or white?
Does it matter what word is being said?
Does it matter what shape the earth is?
👄nope
What matters is keeping your eyes open and spreading your seeds of awakening, gently, in as many places as possible...they'll eventually wriggle their way to the surface of someone's consciousness. They'll begin to see clearly on their own, empowered with the knowledge you left behind for them to find, and hopefully spread seeds of their own.
Doing all that you do with love in your heart is never a bad idea.
Shalom, y'all 🤗
P.S.
Do you see Laurel or Yanny? 😳